** Also affects: pidgin-libnotify (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: pidgin-libnotify (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: pidgin-libnotify (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: pidgin-libnotify (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => dx team (dxteam)
** Changed in: pidgin-libnotify (Ubuntu)
Assignee: dx team (dxteam) => (unassigned)
** Summary changed:
- chanserv / nickserv / server notifications not relevant
+ IM clients should blacklist system nicks like chanserv / nickserv / server
for notifications and messaging menu
** Description changed:
- Right, the indicator applet is a great idea and it works quite well but there
is one huge problem I have come accross usability wise. When you have pidgin
running as your google talk, msn and irc frontend you will most likely come
accross this.
- It reports server reconnects and nickerv messages to you in the indicator
applet. Bad idea, why is it bad.... Because reconnecting to a server, or
getting a message from a bot is not what people like to be notified about 100
billion times a day.
- I have found myself ignoring the applet because its nearly constantly in a
new message state because of this flood of useless information and most of the
time I find myself clicking on it to see a friend from msn or google talk sent
me a message 4 hours ago.
- Upon reading the message I feel quite bad because I get messages like are you
ever online for real after they get frustrated with sending me messages with no
response.
- So please get indicator applet to ignore the flood of useless information so
I wont be ass inclined to ignore it anymore.
+ The IM notifications and messaging menu would be improved by
+ blacklisting system messages, for example from chanserv and nickserv.
+
+ Large numbers of notifications and messaging menu entries which do not
+ correspond to real, high-value communications undermine the usefulness
+ and excitement of notifications/messaging menu in general. So we want to
+ eliminate noise from that channel.
+
+ The blacklist is an advanced feature so does not need to have user-
+ visible preferences, at least in the first iteration. It would be
+ acceptable for there to be a configuration file or gconf setting which
+ lists the nick's which are blacklisted, so expert users could change the
+ list.
+
+ This bug should be targeted to 9.10 for Pidgin, and any other IM clients
+ for which we aim to deliver notifications and messaging menu integration
+ in 9.10.
** Tags added: canonical-indicators dxteam notifications
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IM clients should blacklist system nicks like chanserv / nickserv / server for
notifications and messaging menu
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362660
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